Went to 9a.m. Eucharist Service, during which heavy rain fell on Church roof with a noise like thunder. A couple sitting opposite to us in the choir stalls, told us on the way home (they live near us, so we were giving them a lift) that during the worst of the rain, it was coming THROUGH the roof onto them. Mem. must tell one of the churchwardens of this, so they can look for possible roof leakages. Got home and at ten fifteen the sun was out and the above pictured rainbow was showing (rather better than the picture indicates)over our garden. I don't ever remember seeing a rainbow on Christmas Day.
A friend of ours, Sylvia, came to lunch with us, and Ann surpassed herself with traditional Christmas fare, with, I'm glad to say, the exception of brussell sprouts, which is, I think, the one foodstuff I thoroughly dislike.
Took Sylvia home at a little after four p.m. In the evening the two of us played a game of scrabble. "How sad!" I seem to hear the grandchildren saying, "Poor old Granny and Pa; reduced to playing scrabble on Christmas Day" There are two answers to that. One is that we'll be seeing a good many of the grandchildren tomorrow, which we're both looking forward to. And the other answer is that if you look at the photo of our game, you will see something very unusual about it. Any serious scrabblers will spot instantly that ALL the triple word scores were used; and that's something else I can't remember seeing before.
Goodnight All.
5 comments:
Happy Christmas and "trebles all round"!
A belated happy Christmas to you both. Have to disagree with you re the sprouts, I am very partial to them. Broccoli, however, is the food of Satan.
Hello Rog. Wish you both (and all yours) a very Happy New Year.
Hello Sir Bruin. We wish both you and Ursa Minor a great New Year.
P.s. we'll have to agree to differ on brassicas.
P.p.s. Time we got together for a breakfast at Hollowtrees - no danger of greens there.
might have missed it, but who won the Scrabble game?
four of us played Scrabble on Boxing Day with the cousins, both games were some of my worst ever, only excuse was I had six vowels, four of them were Es, the vowels kept coming at each round.
at the other end of the dining room table there were three playing Sorry, a game I have never played. This year haven't played Monopoly but board games are part of Christmas surely.
Hello Madeleine. Ref who won at scrabble - modesty forbids- but about thirty points in it, and our combined score was nearly 700 points, which isn't too bad for a two handed game.
Didn't play any games whilst the family was here - far too busy generally catching up with all the family news.
Wish you both a Happy New Year.
Warm regards, Mike and Ann.
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